19 November - 12 December

THE ODD WOMEN

World Premiere

a play by Michael Meyer

after the novel by George Gissing

Monica Madden LUCY SCOTT
Edmund Widdowson SEAN ARNOLD
Mary Barfoot SORCHA CUSACK
Bella Royston MICHELLE CHADWICK
Rhoda Nunn LORRAINE ASHBOURNE
Alice Madden SUSAN TORDOFF
Virginia Madden TILLY TREMAYNE
Everard Barfoot PAUL HIGGINS
Alfred ALAN PATTISON
Harry Bevis JOHN SKITT
Musicians JAMES COPLEY, LUCY WILDING

Director BRAHAM MURRAY
Designer JOHANNA BRYANT
Lighting ROBERT BRYAN
Sound CATHERINE DEVENISH
Music CHRIS MONKS

I wondered how this play would work, but I need not have worried...Michael Meyer's dramatisation maintains a subtle but firm balance between fact and feelings...Braham Murray's production is tense, lucid and even handed. Altogether, this is a must.
John Peter The Sunday Times

The rock on which the play is built is the indomitable flint of Lorraine Ashbourne's performance - another display of power, passion and precision from this astonishing actress.
Robin Thornber The Guardian

Braham Murray's well paced production tells the complex tale in a series of short, fast moving tableaux using the Royal Exchange's round space as art gallery, drawing room and even park...Sean Arnold and Lorraine Ashbourne are effective throughout. There are lovely cameos from Susan Tordoff and Tilly Tremaine as the hungry sisters...this well thought out and beautifully costumed adaptation provides an evening of pleasures...
Tim Yates The Times Higher Education Supplement